A Mobile Lab for the Amateur Scientist

A Mobile Lab for the Amateur Scientist

Many of you who involve yourself in citizen science projects, or personal amateur research might dream of designing dedicated laboratory spaces in ones' own home or garage. Sort of like the "man cave…
Only Child Not Less Socially Equipped In School

Only Child Not Less Socially Equipped In School

A long-standing argument for public schools over home-schooling and more kids versus one is the social aspect.  Honestly, sending kids to school so they can learn to feel bad about their…
Are Happy Employees Key To Corporate Success?

Are Happy Employees Key To Corporate Success?

An argument in the business world is how happy you can make employees while still maintaining a job standard.    JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed two…
The Singularity Stole My ATM Card

The Singularity Stole My ATM Card

The difficult thing about popularizing movements is that, in the beginning, you want recognition but as time goes on the interests of the movement may be divergent from the people involved in it.…
Zombies - A Public Policy Study

Zombies - A Public Policy Study

Zombies - A Public Policy StudyFound last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result: Night of the Living WonksToward an international…
Why I Just Left Academia

Why I Just Left Academia

This week a computer science researcher named Vinay Deolalikar claimed to have a proof that P is not equal to NP. Let’s set aside what this means for another day, lest I get distracted.  The…
Science3.0?

Science3.0?

Over at the NASW.org archives, their cybrarian did a summary of science blog sites.  And in case "Science2.0" isn't hot enough, we find science3point0.com (yes, that's their moniker): Another…